Ancient Stone Bridge Mahakandarawa, Anuradhapura
Photography-Anu Weerasuriya
The bridge is 10 feet broad and about 5 ½ feet above the Kanadara oya. Well-preserved stone posts and slabs can still be seen. It is off the 59th mile on the Mihintale-Kahatagasdigiliya road.
- Handbook for the Ceylon Traveller, a Studio Times publication, 1983
Photography-Nihal Fernando
North-west of Yala’s coastal strip, 22 miles by a few miles inland, lies the Yala Strict Natural Reserve – 111 square miles between the rivers Menik ganga and Kumbukkan oya. A rocky outcrop runs along its northern rim. Thence Dematagala rises a thousand feet above the plain, Talagurunela eight hundred and Mandala five hundred. The whole range is full of caves where successfully lived Old Stone Age, New Stone Age and modern man. The walls of a lime-wahsed cave still gream bright on Mandagala. It was the cave of the blind mountain queen – the Kanabisogalge. The leopard, the liard and the bear keep her court …
Who was she? Was she king as she was fair? Did Love to her eyes repair to help him in his blindness, and help’d, left her – sightless there?
- The Wild, The Free, The Beautiful by Nihal Fernando, a Studio Times Publication. Words by Robert Silva, 1986
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ReplyDeleteDate: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:36:07 +0530
ReplyDeleteFrom: "Prof. Bandaranayake"
Subject: Re: STUDIO TIMES BULLETIN-OCTOBER 2011
To: "Studio Times Ltd.,"
Dear Anu -- Could you please email me a copy of the upper right photograph of a peasant house with a straw thatched roof -- for reference purposes only.
I am interested in the front view which showed the pila and wooden posts.
-- if it has been published pl. just give me the reference -- it is an archetypal house form which has probably not changed for three or four thousand years, as discussed in the introduction to my Sinhalese Monastic Architecture (now available in a cheap[er] paperback) -- best regards -- SB
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:23:23 +1300
ReplyDeleteFrom: Vasantha
Subject: StudioTimes bulletin
To: studiot@sltnet.lk
To the Team of Studio Times,
How do I receive the Studio Times Bulletin on regular basis please ? I saw a recent Bulletin and I found it quite interesting.
Please let me know the procedure of receiving this by email.
Thank you,
Vasantha De Silva
New Zealand
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:37:53 -0700 (PDT)
ReplyDeleteFrom: Dinali Goonetillake
Subject: Re: STUDIO TIMES BULLETIN-SEPT 2011
To: "Studio Times Ltd,"
Thank you very much for the bulletin. Greatly appreciate it as well as all you are doing to educate us on our heritage.
Best Wishes,
Dinali